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Profile your characters like a pro
Profile your characters like a pro Try a slightly different character study. Here are two characters, without talking about how they look, write a short paragraph about what kind of…
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Can you Survive the Haunted Horror of the Witches’ Vampire House?
Six prompts to get you writing in the week after Halloween!
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Pensive based on a news story – 18 Oct 2021
I heard a piece on the news yesterday and haven't stopped thinking about it. I need to work it out, so it's going here in a Pensive. SEPTA story It…
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Does Living Abroad Broaden Your Mind
When I was growing up in Edinburgh, I couldn't imagine wanting to live anywhere else. All my friends were there, my many cousins and I knew the city and felt…
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THE AEROPLANE
In 1903, the Wright brothers flew around 200 feet at Kittyhawk. In 1909, Blériot crossed the English Channel. By 1918, aircraft played a significant role in combat and the RAF…
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A Pensive on Writing Place
Use the opening passages from these novels to inspire a piece of your own writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts in a village: Macondo was…
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MUSES & HEAT & MEET n GREET
Do you have a muse? Write about her. I say “her”, because the original Greek muses were female. But yours may not be. Write about what form he/she/it takes and…
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Pensive 9 August 2021
You are a dog whisper. You’ve been that way since childhood. It’s not that you know what they are thinking; you can hear them in your mind, always with individual…
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Poems please
Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a poem pensive? A few ideas for you here: Write an acrostic poem of 9 lines using the word girandole. Each line begins with…
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An Ostentation of Peacocks
This post is by Angela Williams. A Founder Member of Pens Around the World, she left us in 2021, to pursue a demanding creative writing course. We wish her well! More about…